Year 4: Swan Boy

by Diana Hendry

Published 16 August 2004
This is a fairy tale based on the story of The Six Swans. Six brothers were turned to swans by their wicked step-mother. All of them were saved by their sister and turned back into children, except for Caleb, who is a part-boy, part-swan. He lives in exile on the island of Nanna. Now his family are returning, and as he waits, Caleb remembers the dramatic and painful events that led him from be transformed from an ordinary boy into a swan-creature.